60 Minutes Isaias Afwerki Interview (1985)

Late last year a BBC report on famine in Ethiopia stirred emotions throughout the Western world. People chipped in their pennies and dollars to a massive relief effort and put considerable moral pressure on their governments to do more in the way of foreign aid. Such feelings may be sincere and understandable but they also ignored some very hard questions that should have been asked and went. For example, just how much of that suffering in Ethiopia is due to natural disaster like drought and how much is due to the way Ethiopia’s Marxist government is trying to crush those who would rebel against it…